Atlas Biblica

    Genesis · 29 verses

    Genesis 9

    Every verse links to the people and places named in it, and to the passages readers connect it with.

    The chapter

    What happens here

    Atlas's own reading, written from this chapter and nothing else, and published only once a person has approved it. Each scene names the verses it covers; the names inside it link to the people and places they name.

    Noah curses Canaan for what Ham did, and the chapter leaves the reason sitting quietly between those two names.

    A covenant with the whole green worldvv. 1–17

    God blesses Noah and his sons, gives them the moving world for food, and places one small but emphatic boundary around the meal: the lifeblood must not remain in the meat. Human blood is treated differently, because mankind bears God's own image. Then comes the covenant—not merely with Noah and his descendants, but with birds, livestock, beasts, and every living thing that came out of the ark. Its sign is a rainbow in the clouds, which God will see and remember whenever the clouds gather. A rather splendid memorandum, hung across the sky.

    The vineyard, the tent, and the cursevv. 18–29

    The three sons of Noah populate the earth, and Noah, described now as a man of the soil, plants a vineyard. The next movement is wonderfully abrupt: wine, drunkenness, and an uncovered tent. Ham sees his father's nakedness and reports it outside; Shem and Japheth respond with an elaborate retreat, carrying the garment on their shoulders and walking backward so that they do not see. Noah wakes, learns what his youngest son has done, and curses Canaan—the son named in the earlier sentence—while blessing the God of Shem and speaking of Japheth's expanded territory and dwelling in Shem's tents. The chapter then gives Noah's remaining years with the calm arithmetic of an ending: 350 after the flood, 950 altogether, and then death.

    The text

    Read it

    Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Names the Hebrew and Greek put in the verse link to the person, place or people they name; the address beside each verse is a link to that verse, which is what a reader copies and shares.

    1. Gen 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

    2. Gen 9:2The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.

    3. Gen 9:3Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.

    4. Gen 9:4But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

    5. Gen 9:5And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:

    6. Gen 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

    7. Gen 9:7But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it.”

    8. Gen 9:8Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,

    9. Gen 9:9“Behold, I now establish My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

    10. Gen 9:10and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth—every living thing that came out of the ark.

    11. Gen 9:11And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

    12. Gen 9:12And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:

    13. Gen 9:13I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

    14. Gen 9:14Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

    15. Gen 9:15I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

    16. Gen 9:16And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”

    17. Gen 9:17So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”

    18. Gen 9:18The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

    19. Gen 9:19These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

    20. Gen 9:20Now Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

    21. Gen 9:21But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

    22. Gen 9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

    23. Gen 9:23Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

    24. Gen 9:24When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

    25. Gen 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

    26. Gen 9:26He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

    27. Gen 9:27May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

    28. Gen 9:28After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

    29. Gen 9:29So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.

    01 — Also here

    Who else the chapter reaches

    Names written in the English are linked in the text above. These are the ones that are not: an entity the Hebrew or Greek names under a spelling the translation does not use, or one reached only by an assertion about a verse of this chapter.

    Reached by an assertion Atlas extracted from a verse of this chapter rather than by a name written in it — a pronoun, a title, or a participant the sentence carries without naming. This layer is model-read and measured at 88.6–90.3% precision, and it is kept separate from the names above for that reason.

    02 — Read alongside

    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 223 passages were voted onto 24 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 11Isaiah 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
    • 6Leviticus 24:17And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
    • 4Deuteronomy 12:23Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
    • 6Matthew 26:52“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him. “For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
    • 13Ezekiel 1:28The appearance of the brilliant light all around Him was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
    • 4Deuteronomy 15:23But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
    • 4Deuteronomy 12:16but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
    • 6Revelation 13:10“If anyone is destined for captivity, into captivity he will go; if anyone is to die by the sword, by the sword he must be killed.” Here is a call for the perseverance and faith of the saints.
    • 25Deuteronomy 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
    • 13Revelation 4:3The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
    • 13Revelation 10:1Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire.
    • 25Joshua 9:23Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”
    • 2Psalms 8:4–8what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
    • 4Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
    • 5Exodus 21:28–29If an ox gores a man or woman to death, the ox must surely be stoned, and its meat must not be eaten. But the owner of the ox shall not be held responsible.
    • 6Exodus 21:12–14Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

    Onward

    Keep reading

    Next chapterGenesis 1032 verses.Named hereNoahEverything the graph connects to this name.BookGenesisAll 50 chapters.Every bookThe Bible66 books, 1,189 chapters.